r/The_Donald is the homepage of Donald Trumps supporters on Reddit.
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It comes as no surprise then, when we look at the distribution of comments that comments containing the term 'Obama' were more likely to contain negative words.
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We can also see from the colour of the bars, that the adjusted score shows that these words are more frequently used than the positive words.
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What is surprising is the use of negative language in comments relating to 'Trump'. This does highlight the flaw in the analysis, as when we look at the most frequent negative words we can see that 'fucking' is the most frequent. This of course could actually be used in a positive context, which cannot be accounted for by the Afinn scoring system.
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r/The_Donald
Using R to scrape and analyse Reddit comments
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Overall ratio of positive comments to negative comments in r/The_Donald
Looking at the language relating to political parties, our sample size of related comments is smaller, but follows the same pattern as above.
The comments related to the democratic party being overwhelming negative when looking at the score and adjusted scores.
Interestingly, when compared to r/all, the language used in r/The_Donald about the democrats features more negative words, but the adjusted scores of these words are lower, meaning they are used less frequently, meaning the mean word score is actually higher in r/The_Donald.
Looking at the language relating to political parties, our sample size of related comments is smaller, but follows the same pattern as above.
The comments related to the democratic party being overwhelming negative when looking at the score and adjusted scores.
Interestingly, when compared to r/all, the language used in r/The_Donald about the democrats features more negative words, but the adjusted scores of these words are lower, meaning they are used less frequently, meaning the mean word score is actually higher in r/The_Donald.